Astr 596 PC | Lecture 38 | Spring 2010
Joel R. Primack
Astronomy 596 PC
Lecture 38, April 26 Spring 2010 Adrian L. Melott

Lecture Notes: pdf file

Horizons, Structure, and the Power Spectrum

  • structure growth: a characteristic scale
  • transfer function
  • implications for the power spectrum

Dark Matter: Hot versus Cold

  • hot and not
  • effect on perturbation spectrum

    Nonlinear Reality

    • spherical collpase model
    • forecasting structures from initial density field
The distribution of galaxies in a slice of the SDSS spectroscopic survey.

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